George Braun Quotations

We're getting a little tight because it's getting down to the end and we know we have to win to hold first or second place and we're just not ready to do it.

When you're up that much in the last two minutes you just hand the game away. We just don't play mentally tough enough at the end of games.

He did it in three years too and I think I only had one other player that did that. Joe's really been the heart and soul of our team this year. He's shooting a great percentage because he gets shots inside. But tonight he stepped outside and hit a couple and that's going to help him.

Kyle played big for us down the stretch, not just with the foul shots, but a couple of big rebounds. He had the kind of game you'd expect out of your second-leading scorer. He's been pretty solid for us this season.

Kyle can be a big time player if he keeps working at it. He's 6-5, he runs and jumps well. He can move.

Over the past three years or so, it's really become a good rivalry. They've had a good team and we've had a good team. And we've played some good games. (Tonight) I think at first we were both trying to feel each other out. It made for a low-scoring game. We like to play faster, but under control. At times we got out of control.

Some of the threes were unbelievable. But we gave them the opportunity to get it.

That could have hurt us. Thanks god we had a big enough lead.

That was pretty cool. We got him out there and he took three shots and he finally hit one. He deserves it. He's a great kid. He's been with us all season. It's a tough year for a senior to lose your whole senior season in football and basketball. He was certainly going to start for us this year.

That was our best game of the year. And tonight might have been our second best.

That's the worst half of basketball I can ever remember playing in 21 years. I'd really have to think if there was one worse than that. It was just horrible.

We played pretty well defensively in the second half and tried to hold their scorers down a little bit.

We had him (Quintin) covered pretty good. It wasn't a great open shot.

We needed to calm down and break their press. We came out, found the way through the press and also played a lot better on defense.

This would have been a nice win. It would have taken some pressure off us. Now it only increases the pressure. It was a better performance than we had the last two games and that's the bright side of it. But it's got to be 32 minutes, not 30.

(Westbrook) plays hard and they don't quit. This is the kind of game where you get in and you think you're just going to win it and then you make a few mistakes and you're not going to have a good game. We wanted to show tonight that we can play and to get ready for the next game.

We think most people won't use the test, but it will be a deterrent because they will bring it up.

There's only one place to go when you're up top and that's down. We just didn't want to continue that downward spiral.

(North Branford) played well. They're physical inside and we were looking for calls that we weren't going to get instead of just playing hard.

They didn't make it easy for us inside and that's our game. They took that away and we didn't adjust to it.

It was our best game of the year.

It's been a while since a team has won it back-to-back. We've got two games to go to do it. We'll give it a shot.

They beat us at our place last year and we beat them at theirs. I'm sure it will be another good game when we see them at their place.

They just stepped up big time. Matt had a stellar game tonight. He used his quickness and he rebounded big for us. Duncan had a big game too. That takes so much pressure off the other three guys.

I just hope we haven't peaked. I still see room for improvement. We've been playing basically five kids and they could get tired this time of the year. But they just have to suck it up and get through it.

All of a sudden we went from the penthouse to the outhouse.

The first quarter was fine and after we turned the ball over and we didn't talk on defense and didn't jump out on the screens. They did a great job executing. I thought they made us look foolish.